Stone Age Apocalypse - pt2of5

Some 75,000 years ago a super-eruption from the site of Lake Toba in Sumatra blasted out more than two hundred cubic miles of ash over an area of over a million square miles. This program investigates the devastating aftermath of the most powerful volcano of the last twenty-five million years - including the theory that it triggered a human genetic bottleneck leaving a tiny band, as low as a few thousand survivors to preserve the human race - and looks at the threat of super-volcanoes in the 21st century.

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[swordfighter3]

9:14- thats one HUGE explosion!

[SpeakerForrTheDead]

Yeah, the largest volcanic explosion of the last 25 million years. Lake Toba (the remnant caldera) measures 100 km long x 30 km wide.

[redprince9]

if something like this happened today, the human race would be able to survive it with a lot less casualties, percentage-wise... the problem would be the greedy f*ckers that would wanna start charging your' first-born child as the price of a bottle of water... except for that people wouldn't put up with that for very long and would start taking what they needed to survive... so the greedy would get pillaged and wealth would get redistributed, but at what cost to science/ progress? random thought

[Webofscience]

@mrfahed1001 Yellowstone is NOT overdue for an eruption! And there are no indications at all that Yellowstone is likely to erupt in our lifetime.

[mrfahed1001]

i amde sound crazy but i actually want to experience yellowstone or lake toba despite all the things that might happes

ps. yellowtone is extremely overdue for a LARGE LARGE eruption and is looking likely in our lifetime kids :D

[shoshanish]

@Gforcebond maybe, but doubtful

[Gforcebond]

I bet this volcanic eruption changed the tilt of the Earth's axis by a few tenths.

[narezul]

interesting now i imagine that all volcanos could be active as the ones in hawaii but if the gas is trapped and just builds until the pressure gets so bad the earth itself doesnt have the strength to hold it back, cool

[Deader87]

Wow, that was huge, I hadn't realized how fascinating super-volcanoes we're until I saw this